Various branches of the US government (including NIST) have developed a very successful approach to funding research. Set up a measurable competition (such as we already have with CGOS) and then fund research groups through a series of rounds, with the results of each funding round being influenced by the group's success at the measurable competition in the previous rounds.
This obviously works better in some fields than in others, but there's no reason it couldn't work for go. cheers stuart On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Darren Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not the author of a strong program, but I'll throw another item into >> the list: more incentive. For many, computer go competes for time with >> many other hobbies and perhaps even a day job. > > The big Ing prize brought many people into computer-go, all working in > parallel, competing, to make mediocre programs. And plenty of progress > has been made in the past few years, without any big money being > offered. Could it be that the lack of financial incentive makes people > willing to share their work and knowledge, and that that is behind > recent progress? (I don't know, it could just be coincidence.) > > Darren > > -- > Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer > http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese-Arabic > open source dictionary/semantic network) > http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) > http://darrendev.blogspot.com/ (blog on php, flash, i18n, linux, ...) > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
